Change the url of the department filter widget - Sitefinity - Ecommerce

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Posted by Community Admin on 09-Feb-2012 00:00

Hi all,

I'd like to change the url, when using the Departments widget.
Now I can filter on departments and the URL becomes like this:

mysite/.../

I want to have it like this:
http://mysite/products/books/

How can I achieve this?

Regards,
Daniel

Posted by Community Admin on 10-Feb-2012 00:00

Hey Daniel,

For products this is easy to do (Administration>>Catalog>>Providers>>OpenAccessProvider>>Parameters and then add a 'urlFormat' key and a value).

For departments (which is a hierarchical taxonomy) you'd think adding the same parameter (under Administration>>Taxonomy>>Providers>>OpenAccessDataProvider>>... ) would do the same trick, but unfortunately not. Under Data>>URL Evaluators>>Taxonomy there's also a parameter section, but that's unfortunately undocumented - I did a blond attempt to verify, but no success.

So it seems only a Custom Provider (as described in Slavo Ingilizov's post) might do the trick. However, this approach seems to clash with the standard pager control which results into PITS Issue #9577. (Update from Lubomir Velkov on Feb 2 2012: probl not make it for v5.0 release)

I could be wrong because I've not created and tested the custom provider myself but for now it seems a no go all around.

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Posted by Community Admin on 16-Nov-2012 00:00

Hi there. I manged to do this by using IIS UrlRewrite 2.0. Added the following rule:

<rule name="DepartmetnsRewrite" stopProcessing="true">

<match url="^products/([^$]+)" />

<action type="Rewrite" url="products/-in-Department/Departments/R:1" />

</rule>

And off course you have to do an outbound rule or change the navigation widgets to make the right urls for the client to click.

See it in action here: www.hobbyeurope.com

OC

Posted by Community Admin on 20-Nov-2012 00:00

Hello,

The URL rewrite method is the preferred method to accomplish this task provided by Ole Christian Synnes and has been marked as the answer.

Kind regards,
Patrick Dunn
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Posted by Community Admin on 25-Mar-2013 00:00

Hi OC,

your rewrite rule is working fine, thanks! I was wondering how you changed the URL's behind the departments widget. It's still pointing to the "-in-department/departments" url (off course).

Regards,
Peter

Posted by Community Admin on 25-Mar-2013 00:00

Peter,
I'm not using the Department widget at all. I have made my own from scratch.
But I guess it would be just as easy to make an url-rewrite outbound rule that does it the other way around, as the inbound rule I pointed out above.
OC

Posted by Community Admin on 25-Mar-2013 00:00

Hi OC,

thanks, that explains it. I will see what solutions I will use.

Regards,
Peter

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